Texas A&M AgriLife Research has an immediate opening for a research specialist focusing on the use of livestock guard dogs in sheep operations.

Duties of the position include:

Conducting educational programs on livestock guard dogs, and working with individual ranchers to develop a successful LGD program.

Assisting in research to provide more definitive answers to questions on how to effectively use LGD. This research will include working on AgriLife locations and with cooperators.

Interacting with successful users of LGD to learn from their experience, as well as to search the internationally available literature on LGD to develop a strong research and experienced based knowledge to draw on to assist both new and experienced users of LGD to be successful.

Developing web and print educational materials as well as a social media presence.